During her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, Dr. Rogers studied polysaccharide degradation by human intestinal symbionts of the genus Bacteroides. She also studied polysaccharide degradation by the microbial community in the larval hindgut of the aquatic crane fly, Tipula abdominalis, at the University of Georgia. Dr. Rogers earned her doctorate at the Ohio State University where she investigated a small RNA that modulates antibiotic resistance in the common food pathogen Bacillus cereus.